{"id":49459,"date":"2016-01-19T11:41:32","date_gmt":"2016-01-19T18:41:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/?p=49459"},"modified":"2016-01-20T11:06:19","modified_gmt":"2016-01-20T18:06:19","slug":"skier-throws-aspen-snowboarder-from-chairlift","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/?p=49459","title":{"rendered":"Skier Throws Snowboarder From Chairlift"},"content":{"rendered":"

Can’t say we haven’t occasionally needed a quick\u00a0escape from a nutball on a\u00a0chairlift, but we’ve never gone as far as a skier at Aspen Highlands<\/strong> did on Sunday, January 17, 2106.<\/p>\n

A “white man” skier in his late 30s reportedly\u00a0pushed 28-year-old Seth Beckton<\/strong>, of Aspen, right off the Loge Peak chairlift, according to a story in the Aspen Times<\/strong><\/em><\/a>.<\/p>\n

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Beckton said he fell face-first 20 to 25 feet to the ground, but fortunately landed in a \u201clarge pocket of snow\u201d and was not injured. . .\u00a0\u201cI honestly thought I was dead,\u201d Beckton said. \u201cBecause I didn\u2019t know where we were (within the lift path). It\u2019s not cool to think anyone would do that.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

It all started with a discussion of riding powder. After a comment Beckton made, the skier said, “Are you making fun of me?” When Beckton said, “Not really — but maybe,” the guy then said, “Do you think this if funny?” and threw Beckton from the chair. . . which is kind of funny now that he mentions it.<\/p>\n

Beckon hasn’t yet filed a report and no one really knows who this “white man” skier really is.<\/p>\n

[Link: Aspen Times<\/a>]<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Can’t say we haven’t occasionally needed a quick\u00a0escape from a nutball on a\u00a0chairlift, but we’ve never gone as far as a skier at Aspen Highlands did on Sunday, January 17, 2106. A “white man” skier in his late 30s reportedly\u00a0pushed 28-year-old Seth Beckton, of Aspen, right off the Loge Peak chairlift, according to a story […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[14,4],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49459"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=49459"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49459\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":49465,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49459\/revisions\/49465"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=49459"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=49459"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=49459"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}